Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein